Fanboys, Sycophants, and Haters
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Joe and Jimmy talk about fanboys, sycophants, and haters. These are three types of people that harm the church. What's the danger of being a fanboy? What's wrong with the sycophant? And haters? That's easy—accept that we all become haters at some point.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast is sponsored by Banner of Truth. Banner of Truth is an evangelical and |
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| 0:08.6 | from the reformed tradition. Check them out at Banner of Truth.org. Don't forget, hit them up soon. |
| 0:15.0 | They have a Christmas special going on. |
| 0:17.0 | Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Welcome to doctrine in devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Jimmy Fowler, elder candidateidat at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:44.0 | What's going on, man? |
| 0:45.0 | Nothing, just gearing up for the Christmas season, getting ready for, you know, preaching and |
| 0:51.3 | so I've been doing a lot of sermon prep yeah how's the sermon prep coming yeah it's |
| 0:54.7 | good time got some time uh... you know i mean all i need is five minutes you know why you doing it now |
| 1:00.7 | and i figured i should uh... put a little more effort this season just it's |
| 1:05.2 | Christmas extra special extra special extra holy so if I don't put at least an |
| 1:10.2 | hour then because how much time do you really put in on sermon prep? |
| 1:14.0 | Let's say like when you're... |
| 1:15.0 | because you don't preach every week. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | So like, but this Christmas season you're going to be preaching twice. |
| 1:20.0 | You're going to be preaching the week before Christmas and the day of Christmas. |
| 1:25.3 | That's right. So on average I well here I strive for 10 to 12 hours okay most likely it's about 12 to 15. Okay. That's good. There's a there's a book |
| 1:35.8 | coming out from a friend of ours named Ryan Hughley where... |
| 1:39.0 | Hughes. Oh yeah, Huggy. Huggy. Huggy. Huggy. Huggy bear. |
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